But there were many other women working hard, in gatherings small and large, that pushed to ensure a woman's right to vote was recognized. And not all of them are household names.

Among those was Jean Brooks Greenleaf, a contemporary of Anthony's, a fellow fighter for women's rights and a longtime Rochester resident who died in 1918.

On Monday, Brooks Greenleaf's contributions will be recognized when the Greece Historical Society will install a historic marker at the site of her summer home, where Lake Shore Country Club stands today.

"She was quite a major figure in campaigning for women's suffrage here in New York," said Maureen Whalen, a member of the Greece Historical Society. It was through Brooks Greenleaf's efforts with the New York State Women's Suffrage Association that the group helped New York "become the best organized state in the nation as far as campaigning for women's suffrage."

Brooks Greenleaf, a native of Bernardston, Massachusetts, was the wife of Congressman Halbert S. Greenleaf, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1800s. The couple had moved to Rochester in 1867.

According to a Rochester Regional Library Council biography of Brooks Greenleaf, her work included running the organizational meeting of the Women's Ethical Club, chairing the committee that drafted the constitution of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and organizing and fundraising the Domestic Science Department of the Mechanic's Institute — which later became Rochester Institute of Technology.

Brooks Greenleaf along with a dozen other women met at her summer home on what is now Greenleaf Road in 1892 to form the Charlotte Political Equality Club. She was the only woman nominated to sit as a delegate at the 1894 state Constitutional Convention, and while she did not win a seat as a delegate, she nonetheless spoke at the convention in support of suffrage.

"Along with Susan B. Anthony and others, she was right there on the convention floor," said Whalen. "She was right there to present arguments."

The bid for women's voting rights failed at at that convention, as it had during the previous convention in 1874, but nearly a third of the male delegates voted in favor — a huge improvement over the prior attempt.

But Brooks Greenleaf and other suffragists were undaunted. She was sidelined from her state-wide work in the latter 1890s when her husband took ill, and by her own failing health, but remained active in local politics, as head of the Monroe County Political Equality Club, said Whalen.

Brooks Greenleaf was the only suffragist among her contemporaries — Anthony died in 1906, Cady Stanton died in 1902 — to live to see New York enshrine a woman's right to vote in its Constitution. That happened in November of 1917 New York's men approved a Constitutional amendment to fully enfranchise women.

She died, however, before being able to cast her first vote — on March 2, 1918 at the age of 86.

As for why Brooks Greenleaf's name is not as well-known as her fellow fighters, Whalen offered this observation: "There are a lot of women who worked very, very hard at this and their names are lost to history because that happens to women a lot."